Joy Batchelor Movies

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and...

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

Ever seen a snake with a moustache? The Middle East was as much an ideological as a physical battleground in the Second World War. In the midst of...

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.

A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint...

This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony....

Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British...

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

An animated, dark satire of America's automobile-obsessed, consumerist culture. An anonymous, brilliant scientist toils tirelessly in his ivory tower...

A political satire, the first film made by Halas and Batchelor.

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure...

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The first British animated Technicolor film.